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digitalmars.D - Re: equivariant functions

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

 Even in natural language identical words are reused for various 
 different meanings.
 Also, whenever a feature is to be integrated into the language, it is 
 preferable if possible to integrate it under an existing concept instead 
 of "allocating" a new concept to it.

Another issue with omonymous keywords is simple syntax highlighters can't distinguish attribute from statement and highlight them in different ways: scope, invariant, in.
Oct 14 2008